Sous Chef

Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial hosts a monthly initiative whereby food bloggers from all over the world write about what’s happening in their kitchen, do go and have a squiz, you will find the people who contribute listed on the right hand side of the home page.

In my kitchen…

are gorgeous tangy pepperdews grown and pickled by my friend Micheal, they inspired me to make a lovely sweet potato and pepperdew soup.

In my kitchen …

is this Moleskine Kitchen Journal that I won from Yuppiechef, they recently held an Heirloom recipe competition and I entered my Mum’s wonderful Sage & Onion Sausage Rolls. I love getting a box of happy from the guys at Yuppiechef, everything is always beautifully packaged with a handwritten card and a fridge magnet to add to my collection. The journal has various sections in which to write favourite recipes, tabbed sections to personalise, food calendars, facts and handy measures and conversions.

In my kitchen…

is this old enamel bowl. I found it in a junk shop here in Pietermaritzburg, when I turned it over to see the price I was astounded to see the name Ruby Gill written on the bottom. It was a sign – the bowl was meant to be mine, you see my maiden name is Gill.

Sadly I’ve only used it once as a prop to hold rice, I put a beef dish in it the other day and was about to photograph it when Himself walked by and said “oh yummy, dog food!”

In my kitchen…

are some of the lemons from our two trees, as you can see one gives us a very smooth skin and the other a rougher skinned lemon. Last year I squeezed some of our crop and froze the liquid in ice trays and then popped them into a zip-lock bag, it meant I had lemon juice all year round.

In my kitchen…

is this bottle of Verlaque balsamic reduction, this particular flavour (honey and rooibos tea) goes particularly well with my 3 ingredient sticky chicken.

On the 21st of June I am flying to Cape Town for the Food Blogger’s Indaba (conference) I really enjoyed last years event and this one is promising to be very exciting, well done to Colleen Grove aka browniegirl for all her hard work and dedication in organising it.  Whilst in Cape Town I will also be filmed by Anne Meyers I shall be cooking a 3 course meal for her website I Love Cooking. I have two scenarios in my head,  there’s the one where I present a brilliant dish to the camera, batting my eyelids in a Nigella fashion whilst uttering those iconic words “here’s one I made earlier” then there’s the one where I stand in front of the camera opening and closing my mouth like a fish……told you my name used to be Gill!